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Sense of coherence, life stress, and psychological distress: A prospective methodological inquiry
Author(s) -
Flannery Raymond B.,
Flannery Georgina J.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199007)46:4<415::aid-jclp2270460407>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - psychology , coping (psychology) , distress , clinical psychology , maladaptive coping , stress (linguistics) , perception , psychological distress , association (psychology) , developmental psychology , mental health , psychotherapist , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience
Antonovsky (1987) has proposed the Sense of Coherence (SOC) as a global perceptual predisposition in responding to life stress. Composed of comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness, this construct has been associated with more adaptive coping in previous cross‐sectional studies. This prospective study ( N = 95) investigated the association of SOC (assessed by Antonovsky's measure) with life stress and symptoms. SOC was correlated negatively with life stress and symptoms and appeared to mitigate the impact of life stress. SOC was not found to be a buffer variable. Implications of these findings are presented, as are methodological issues that concern Antonovsky's measure.